The Forbidden Zone

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Summary: Winner in the H.P. Lovecraft style
Review: A small town becomes the center for invasion of hideous creatures, arriving from another dimension. Whitley Strieber pays superb and creepy tribute to H.P. Lovecraft. This is one of those books where you know the characters are caught up in something so sinister and evil that it's an almost no win situation. Very creepy, very dark, very Lovecraft-like. A perfect blend of horror.


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Summary: Incredible!
Review: I can't believe the low ratings this book is getting. This is one of Strieber's best books, and it is definetly one of the best horror stories out there. I guess I enjoyed the book more because I didn't know anything about the book at all when I started reading Chapter 1. This book is great, but try not to know the whole summary of the book before you pick it up cause that'll spoil it.

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Summary: A weak novel
Review: It could have been a great book. The plot is there. A fitting setting is there, too. But the the author forgot to form credible characters. Their interacting and acting is erratic and often not believable. Intelligent people like Professor(!) Kelly and Loi or a police lieutenant do not act so stupidly as they do very often. And the ending makes the impression as if the author wants to get out of the mess he has written himself into. It simply makes no sense!

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Summary: Give this one a miss
Review: It's not often that I run across a book so terrible that I can't finish it, but this was certainly one of them! The plot was given away almost from the beginning, and the characters were strictly two-dimensional. I found the dialouge irritating and the actions of the main characters unbelievable. I haven't read any other books by this author, and now I probably won't.

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Summary: Horrible
Review: One of the worst books I've ever (tried to) read. Had to skip to the end, and even then it wasn't worth the time commitment.

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Summary: Great book depicting the coming of the end of the world.
Review: Suspenseful, great reading.

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Summary: Silly monster novel entertains
Review: This book has more in common with John Carpenter's version of The Thing than it does with H.P. Lovecraft's classic mythos stories. Some strange creature zaps people with a hypnotic light and takes over their bodies, turning them into shape shifting things. The handful of survivors try to escape a world that is being rapidly invaded and changed. Action packed and fun on its own terms, nonetheless the novel suffers from a certain lack of depth.

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Summary: Eeech!
Review: This novel is worse than the worst I read as a tad in Amazing Stories back in the 40's! No plot, paper (not even cardboard) characters,and impossible dialogue. I finished it just for the challange.Wolf in the Adirondacks.

Rating:
Summary: Eeech!
Review: This novel is worse than the worst I read as a tad in Amazing Stories back in the 40's! No plot, paper (not even cardboard) characters,and impossible dialogue. I finished it just for the challange.Wolf in the Adirondacks.

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Summary: Unbelievably bad
Review: Whitley Strieber has written some very intelligent, scary, thought-provoking stuff -- and this ain't it. It tries to be, by turns, sexy, scary, and really really gross, and fails miserably on all counts (well, it does manage to be pretty gross). There are no believable characters, the horror is too over-the-top and cartoonish to be scary, and the plot is beyond stupid.